Cherokee Garden Library, Celebrating 50 Years & Growing with Charlotte Moss

Please join us on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to celebrate the Cherokee Garden Library—over 40,000 rare and contemporary works telling the diverse and meaningful stories of people and plants that have shaped the Southeastern United States and beyond.

Renowned interior designer Charlotte Moss will lead us on a fascinating journey as we travel the world through her eyes and explore the small intimate gestures of gardens near and far. From her home in Virginia to Italian villas, French chateaus, and through the Irish countryside, Moss will share her musings, influences, and inspirations. An author’s book signing and festive reception will follow the lecture.

Charlotte Moss is a lover of beauty, gardening, flowers, history, and books. This summer, she had an opportunity to visit the Garden Library to explore historic volumes written by iconic writers and designers whom she admires—Gertrude Jekyll, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Vita Sackville-West, among others. In her book, Charlotte Moss Flowers, she writes: “It doesn’t matter what I am doing in the library—reading the newspaper or a book or writing a letter—there is a magnetic force imploring me to rediscover something that I have not visited in a long time. That is what libraries do.”

We are honored to welcome Charlotte Moss as a member of the Cherokee Garden Library National Council, and as our special guest, when we celebrate 50 years of collecting, conserving and presenting our resources, and serving our communities.